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These aren't ordinary breakfast pastries. Fruit Delight Crescents are pure joy baked into a flawless flaky treat. Golden-brown crescent rolls are the perfect vessel for a creamy, tangy, sweet cream cheese and fruity pie filling. You can even serve these as delicious personal fruit pies, although that is a slippery slope because... well, it'll be hard for anyone to stop eating these Fruit Delight Crescents!
These aren't ordinary breakfast pastries. Fruit Delight Crescents are pure joy baked into a flawless flaky treat. Golden-brown crescent rolls are the perfect vessel for a creamy, tangy, sweet cream cheese and fruity pie filling. You can even serve these as delicious personal fruit pies, although that is a slippery slope because... well, it'll be hard for anyone to stop eating these Fruit Delight Crescents!
Ingredients
- 1 (8-ounce) package cream cheese softened
- 1/2 cup powdered sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 4 (12-ounce) cans refrigerated crescent rolls
- 1 (20-22-ounce) can prepared fruit pie filling flavor of your choice
- granulated sugar optional, to taste
Directions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
- Line a baking sheet with aluminum foil.
- In a mixing bowl, add the cream cheese, the powdered sugar, and the vanilla and use an electric handheld mixer to beat until combined. Set the cream cheese mixture aside.
- Open the crescent rolls, unroll, and separate into the respective perforated triangles.
- Using a knife or a pizza cutter, trim the widest part at the bottom of each triangle so they become perfect triangles. This makes the filling and rolling processing much easier. You can reserve the resulting dough scraps for a separate use.
- On the widest part of each of the dough triangles, spread about 1 tablespoon of the cream cheese mixture, spreading it to the edges of the sides and the bottom and about halfway up.
- Add about 1 teaspoon of the pie filling to each of the triangles, about 1/2-inch from the edge of the bottom of the dough. Do not spread it to the edges.
- Carefully tease the wide bottom edge of each triangle up and roll the dough upwards to encase the pie filling and place them on the prepared baking sheet.
- Repeat the filling and rolling processes with the remaining cream cheese mixture and the remaining pie filling.
- Lightly sprinkle the crescents with the granulated sugar.
- Bake until the crescents are slightly golden-brown, about 10 minutes.
- Serve.
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